Word: tighter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...game should be tighter than the 3-1 Crimson victory Oct. 30, when the Bruins brought only 13 players to Harvard because of a Brown varsity game the same...
...think we ought to run with it. That line from the alligator wrestling bit, 'Blow in his ear and he'll follow you anywhere.' It went through the studio like wildfire Let's keep it going. (He turns page.) The scripts are getting funnier and tighter all the time...
...Senate bill will now go to conference to resolve minor differences between the House and Senate versions of the legislation. The final bill should be ready for the President's signature by next month. Even so, many advocates of tighter gun laws are disappointed that the present bill omits the two principles that Bobby Kennedy had sought: 1) that every firearm in the U.S. be registered, and 2) that every gun owner be required to seek a federal license. It may take another act of horror to push really effective gun curbs through Congress...
...speed from 90 m.p.h. to 70-still much too fast for safety. "Business at present has a strong inflationary bias," Martin said. If prices keep on shooting up at their 4½%-a-year rate, he added, the Reserve Board may even feel forced to return to a tighter money policy. Commerce Secretary C. R. Smith warned that unchecked inflation could "reduce us to a second-class trading power" by pricing U.S. goods out of world markets...
Both houses of Congress last week virtually shot down any hope of meaningful federal control of guns. The major defeat occurred in the House, where it came in the form - but not the substance - of victory for tighter laws. Voting 305 to 118, the House passed and sent to the Senate a bill that would limit interstate mail-order sales of long guns and certain types of ammunition.* However, charged the bill's disappointed floor manager, Brooklyn Democrat Emanuel Celler, the measure left loopholes "aswide as the Grand Canyon." Among the 19 amendments adopted was one permitting gun collectors...